Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | moved and seconded must be accepted by the Chairman , unless it is frivolous or illegal , or covers the same ground as a motion on which a decision has already been taken in the same meeting . |
| 2 | Assume the dividend and divisor are integral , in two 's complement representation , For definiteness , assume that the remainder is zero or has the same sign as the dividend ( see Stein and Munro 1971 , Chapter 6 for more details ) . |
| 3 | No one else in the world has had your experience of life , sees the world through your eyes or treads the same path through life ‘ towards the light of your particular guiding star ’ ( this is described in a rather dull way as ‘ motivation ’ ) . |
| 4 | Do you want to add anything to that Mr , or does the same point apply ? |
| 5 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |
| 6 | A part or organ in one animal that has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal ’ ( 1843 ) ; ( on late nineteenth century biology ) — ‘ Morphology was studied because it was the material believed to be the most favourable for elucidation of the problems of evolution , and we all thought that in embryology the quintessence of morphological truth was most palpably presented ’ ( 1922 ) ; ( on developmental constraint ) — ‘ But if organisation and the laws of development exclude some lines of variation and favour others , there is certainly nothing supernatural in this , and nothing which is incompatible with natural selection ’ ( 1919 ) . |
| 7 | An anaphor is a word , phrase or ellipsis that has the same meaning as a previous word or phrase in a text , for example a third person pronoun or a verbal ellipsis ( eg Sarah likes burgundy , and Sally , claret ) . |
| 8 | Concern about the disease has also been strengthened by reports of the death of a British dairy farmer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease , a rare dementia in humans that causes the same kind of brain damage as BSE . |
| 9 | And then there is , of course , the photograph of Benn accompanying the article , with a caption that quotes the same statement . |
| 10 | Instead of saying , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing , ’ they might rush to the wardrobe and put on a T-shirt that says the same thing . |
| 11 | Computer models show that the best way of coming up with an inflationary universe that shows the same degree of clumpiness as the real one is to use dark matter that is ‘ cold ’ . |
| 12 | Reference is made to the unconstructive nature of housework tasks , to the emotionally frustrating sense of being on a treadmill that requires the same action to be repeated again and again ; |
| 13 | At the other extreme , a poll tax that takes the same amount from everyone will keep the same absolute difference between the rewards in one job and the next . |
| 14 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 15 | If it does then the product , in conjunction with a page printer that speaks the same language , will be almost infinitely more powerful than one that does n't . |
| 16 | farmers encouraging foxes to live on their land encourage a whole range of other wildlife that enjoys the same habitat , as has been done at Highgrove . |
| 17 | In our garden is a wooden seat that serves the same function as my former porch in France : it catches the last sunlight . |
| 18 | But after two years of struggling , engineers at Grundig have developed a mechanism that manages the same trick while the cassette stays in place . |
| 19 | In other words , rather than using a notepad and pen , you have the privilege of paying £100 for a piece of complicated electronics that does the same thing . |
| 20 | Along with Santa Cruz Operation Inc and IXI Ltd , Unix System Laboratories is said to have been amongst those approached by a gang of users and integrators known as Galileo , who are trying to get the industry working on a common graphical user interface end environment that behaves the same way regardless of which operating system and hardware lies underneath ( UX No 415 ) . |
| 21 | He says Springhill Open Prison suffers from being in the shadow of Grendon gaol , the highly respected prison that shares the same site . |
| 22 | Rye grass is coarse and flat-leaved , and fulfils the same function in a sward as petrol-like grain spirit in cheap Scotch whisky . |
| 23 | The cornet is in B ♭ , transposes like the B ♭ clarinet , and has the same compass as in the trumpet in B ♭ . |
| 24 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 25 | Each copy is the same as the original , and has the same properties as the original . |
| 26 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |
| 27 | Now if we replace the West Overton coordinates with those of Bishops Cannings church and recalculate our slope value , and if it is the same as that between the centres and has the same starting point , then a line joining the centres will have been proved to extend through to Bishops Cannings church . |
| 28 | The neck joins the body around the 21st fret and has the same fixing as the old EG. It 's a mortice and tenon joint with the hidden part running under the scratchplate . |
| 29 | This is not required if the relevant condition is that the parent undertaking holds a majority of the voting rights and holds the same proportion of shares as it holds voting rights |
| 30 | The course takes place from either 09.00-12.00 or 13.00-16.00 and covers the same kind of work as Executive Course I but is less intensive . |